Our worries are over ?

FrequentFlyer · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:23 pm Post subject: Our worries are over ?

I see that Satmap are offering blank SD cards, to back up your exisiting maps, and not before time I say, as I was never happy with the thought of an expensive insurance claim one day, maybe.

rothers · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 28, 2007 Posts: 134

How are these different from blank SD cards you can buy anywhere ? You still need your original card to run the map off.

davidor · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 14, 2008 Posts: 117

The 'S' in SD stands for Secure. The Satmap cards are keyed to the data and as I understand it this means that you can't just copy your data onto the card and have a working copy. In which case they are just selling Satmap branded cards at about twice the price of decent SDHC cards from Amazon.

FrequentFlyer · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:45 pm Post subject: What ?

Satmap high quality, blank SD & HC SD cards are ideal for data backup and storage. Provided with the Satmap own label, these cards are prefect for backing up your valuable MapCard mapping and Route data.

Whilst licencing regulations & encryption do not allow 2nd copies of the map data to be used in the Active10 products, a safe backup is always sensible if your primary data becomes corrupt for any reason.

A spare Satmap SD card also allows you to share your favourite routes and POIs in an easy and portable format.

Hang on...I read this that if I lose my card, I can pop this backup in my device...no ?

Bosun · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:51 pm Post subject: Re: What ?

LostMike · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:10 pm Post subject:

Has anybody asked SatMap to clarify?
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Paul_Duck · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 07, 2010 Posts: 11

Bosun · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:32 am Post subject:

Have e-mailed Satmap,will keep everyone informed as to the reply.

Ian

Bosun · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 5:16 pm Post subject:

And the prompt reply was:-

"Thanks for your enquiry. I can confirm that the SD-cards we are selling are standard blank SD-cards that can be used in the Active10 to back up routes and POIs off the internal memory.

You can also use them to back up the mapping data in the event that the card becomes corrupted you could send the .MAP file into us and we could re-sign it for you.

Kind regards,

Andrew Revill"

Ian

FrequentFlyer · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 5:37 pm Post subject: How ?

Any chance of a little more detail...how to copy over...how to get it 'resigned', (do you have to send it away?)....so I can't use it straight away ? etc. Thanks.

Paul_Duck · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 07, 2010 Posts: 11

davidor · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 14, 2008 Posts: 117

So much as I though - expensive standard SD cards.

In answer to Frequent Flyer - you can just copy the files like any other by putting the card dinto a SD card reader (may need one that handles SDHC). So you can keep them on a PC, backup to disk or memory stick or copy them to another SD card. If your Satmap card gets corrupted, you can send the backed up files to Satmap and, for a fee, theywill write them to a new Secure card.

4ndynorfolk · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:18 pm Post subject:

Is this official from Satmap?

If I back up all my maps to a single card and send it off, will they make them operational, like consolidation?

What would stop me from selling the original on ebay?

Bosun · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:47 pm Post subject:

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